Will the rebound in equities and housing save retirement?

Munnell, Alicia Haydock, Anthony Webb, and Rebecca Cannon Fraenkel. “Will the rebound in equities and housing save retirement?”. Issue in Brief 13-17, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, December 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103841.
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Abstract

The brief's key findings are: (1) The 2010 National Retirement Risk Index showed that 53 percent of households will not be able to maintain their standard of living in retirement. (2) But equity and house prices have both increased since then. (3) Interestingly, updating the asset values only reduces the Index to 50 percent because: (3a) the rise in house prices has been relatively modest in real terms; and (3b) the more robust growth in stocks mainly benefits the top third of households.

Title
Will the rebound in equities and housing save retirement?
Author
Munnell, Alicia Haydock
Webb, Anthony
Fraenkel, Rebecca Cannon
School
Carroll School of Management
Discipline
Finance
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
report
Date Issued
December 2013
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
Issue in Brief
Series Number
13-17
Version Identification
Version of record.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103841
Use Restrictions
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Subject
Financing retirement

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